The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-12-08
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOM EsTIC.

0OmES IOs
Henry II. Herdman book keeper In thu
Citizens National Bank of Kansas City, ha.
boon sentenced to six years Imprisonment In
the penitentary for forgery lie was arrest.
cd IN Chicago while attempting to buy
$lo,ooo worth OF government bonds with the
proceeds OF his crime. His downfall is at
tributed to his infatuation for a woman.
"A sensation has been caused by the fact
that several ministers in their sermons Sun
day denounced the Columbia IS. C0 City
Club as a gambling hell Among the men,
bers OF the club are Gov. Richardson, Sena.
tors Hampton and Butler and many other
eminent public men.
The change in the price of tho New York
Herald from to 5 cents was ordered by Mr..
Bennett in cablegram from Paris and was
entirely unexpected IL is rumored that
other 2,cent dailies will follow the Herald's
example.
a crowd OF negro railroad hands broke in
10 the Oakland tFla,) Jail and carried away
Milnam Williams, who killed Gustave Nells.
Williams was lynchcd, but his body cannot
be found.
Monday, Nov. oS, was the coolest dav over
known in Iowa at this season of the year,
the temperature reaching IS degrees below
| zero.
The Anarchists of Chicago, ILL.,, have pre-
| pared circular for distribution among the
workinsmen, which declares that force is the
only means of success, and urges the believers
in their doctrines to stand by their cause,
even If it leads to death.
Mayor Hewitt has granted permission to
Josef Hoffman,, the boy pianist, to perform
four times per week in public at the Metro
polltan Opera House, but not twice in one
day: Elbridge I: Gerry, president of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, was present when the permission
was given.
Washington special says that Mr.. Blaine
will return TO this country via Japan, and
will arrive in San Francisco June 20 next,
five days prior to the national Republican
convention.
The term just opening at tho New England
Conservatory, promises to be the largest in
its history, while all sections of New England
are represented at this institution Tho
present term shows large number of ac-
cessions from the South, indicating that this
section is approaching moro than ever, the
superic' advantages offered them at tho con-
servatory.
The life-saving crew saved the crew and a
woman-cook from the wreck Of the schooner
Julia of Kingston, Ont, which went ashore
in gale near Oswego, N. Y.
Mrs. Jefferson has stopped the movement
started at Macon, to raise by popular sub
scription a jeff Davis fund,
The hanged Anarchists are to be buried in
Mt GREENWOOD cemetery, 90 miles south of
Chicago on the Chicago and Grand Trunk
railway The interment will take place with
all possible pomp and public demonstrations.
On the Hudson large fields of floating ice are
visible between Hudson and Albany Navi-
cation north of Coxsackie will soon close.
All tows are hurrying southwark.
Rev. Mr. Grubar, well-known minister
n ha Of - Oh, Ill Al.
railway in Iroquois, ILL.,
Mr. A. NJ Palmer, president Of tho Actors
Fund, reports the gross receipts of the bene-
lit performance at the Grand Opera House,
to be s3l56 Is, with several expected contri-
buttons yet to hear from. This is the largest
amount ever produced by any performance
in aid Of the fund
An ARRAY occurred near Memphis Tenn,
between whites and negroes, which resulted
in the killing of two negroes and the wound
ing of several others.
Dorsey, the negro who robbed Banker
Morgan's house in New York City, has been
sentenced to 10 years in the state prison.
At an explosion on tho work of the Free
port, Dodgeville & Northern road, two miles
south Of Dodgeville, Wis, one man was
ers were boring out an unexploded blast.
Lawrence house at Broolvile, Kan. Many |
guests saved their lives by jumping.
Mary II. Gilbert died at Gloucester at tho
advanced age of lOl years, months and 90 |
days.
Benjamin Hazltt, an insane man, jumped |
from an attic window at Beverly, Mass, |
while temporarily insane, and struck on a |
fence, breaking several ribs and sustaining
internal injuries.
Miss Meehan, the victim of the oil of Wit
riol throwing, at Havcrhill, Mass, is slightly
more comfortable Physicians hope to save
the sight OF one eye, perhaps of both.
Fred Schurawsky, an operative in Sturte-
wants woolen mill at Beanhill, Conn, was
caught in the machinery while trying to
throw belt from pulley this morning, and
was instantly killed. He leaves widow and
two children
The new hog disease is still raging among
the swine in the Housatonic valley, Conn,
and the farmers are losing many of their
best porlsers Very few hogs live more than
six days after being attacked, and none re-
cover.
Ben Cusley and Charles A. Logan, two
young rival suitors for tho hand of Eliza
beth Waterson, II years old, the daughter of
a well-known farmer in Oxford junction,
Ia, met at the girls home recently, when
have the prize. Cusley was finally
successful, driving his rival off at the point
of a revolver. Logan was the favorite with
the girl, and the day following she sent
bullet drought her heart.
Henry Jrvings performance of Faust
at the Star Theatre, in New York, realized
1881 so. which will be turned over to the
Beecher monument fund.
Forty men were engaged in digging for
fl,..., l,,,.s .1 l.. e
rocks and earth in the Hummelstown stone
quarry and the body Of one man, Hungar-
ian, has been found. John Boyer who was
dug out will recover. Stieff Verbemes and
John Bricker are buried so deep that their
bodies cannot be recovered for several weeks.
A Wichita (Kan.) special says: II is stated
that the town of Hugo, Col, is over-run with
rats. Mr.. J. M. Humphrey has received
letter from there stating that rats had col
ected in the town by the million, and asking
him to collect all the cats he could find and
express them there. As a result, Humphrey
collected from owners who were glad to give
Them away, $50 cats, put them in cages and
them to Hugo He intends to
finish out 1000 cats and then await further
orders. From the letter he learned that the
cold weather had caused rats to come in from
the prairie in great numbers, and they are
playing sad havoc with residences and mer- ,
of all kinds. The letter announced
hat the rodents had done thousands of dollars
lamage in the town.
The Anarchist Sangerfest committee :
called on the mayor of Chicago to plead for
to supply beer at their coming
battery demonstration. His honor laconi-
,ally declined to alter his previous decision
they offered to detail, so of
heir number to see that everybody was
sober but the mayor dismissed them by in
curing who was to keep the so sober. The |
leputation then left